The Jacob Taube Family

Jake and his family have served as missionaries with Project China since 2007 and are currently serving in Taiwan. After Jake finished his training and fund-raising in the States he and his family moved to mainland China. During his time in language school he start a bible study among college students. This ended up being the core group from which he would start his first church. Since that time has been used to train several young men for the ministry who are now pastoring their own churches and has started a seminary in their city.

In 2014, Jake was deported from the mainland. Now he is planting churches in Taiwan and training those in the mainland via the internet. His proven missionary experience and success aids him as he is actively involved in training more Chinese pastors and helping equip the next generation of church-planting missionaries.

How is the Great Commission essential for making sense of our world? Are ministries of mercy part of the church’s global mission? These are just two of many questions born out of authentic and passionate conversations between church planter Jake Taube and American students serving on short-term mission trips in underground Chinese churches.

In Send Me, I’ll Go, Jake Taube analyzes current mission trends and challenges potential disciple-makers to personalize the decision to spread the message of salvation. With boldness and without apology, this book examines the call of the Great Commission and offers a vision for western Christians to live, uncompromisingly and sacrificially, the responsibility of sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with the world’s unreached people groups.

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Purpose Angst: ‘What are we even doing here?’, Many missionaries are plagued by doubt. Not usually about the message. At least, not most of the missionaries I’ve interacted with. But they have deep misgivings about their ministry. It is not uncommon for a missionary of many years to wonder if they’ve had any impact at all and to say something like, “What am I […]

Intro to Missions- Part 9 Export National Pastors, INTRO TO MISSIONS This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the eighth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of exporting national pastors for ministry. How can ministry multiply? When is it time to release the local church […]

Intro to Missions- Part 8 Exercise for Ministry, INTRO TO MISSIONS This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the eighth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of training ministers on the foreign field. Aaron talks about the essential step of exercising believers for ministry. The paradigm […]

Intro to Missions Course – Part 7, INTRO TO MISSIONS This is the audio from an introductory course on missions that a friend and I taught at our home church. In the sixth lesson, Aaron, my missionary friend in Morocco, discusses the vital work of establishing believers. Aaron talks about the essential step of exhorting believers to ministry. Jesus modeled this priority and […]

Rethinking Unreached People Groups (Part 3), A long time ago, I started a blog series trying to show that a widespread, modern interpretation of the Great Commission was a novel innovation and in fact not what the mission entails. To clarify, I’m talking about the idea that the mission of the church is to reach people from each and every ethnolinguistic group […]

Fixing the IMB, For those who don’t know, the International Mission Board, which is the missions sending agency of the Southern Baptist Convention, recently announced a serious shortfall in their approximately $300 million annual operating budget. Over the last six years, the IMB has spent $210 million more than they have received in contributions. As a result of […]

Increasing Your Church’s Missions Giving, I’ve had the great privilege over the past decade to visit many churches in the United States to talk about missions. One of the things that I’ve noticed in these travels is that there are some churches whose missions giving is out of all proportion to their size. That is, if you were to break […]

Creativity: the most overvalued trait in missions (Part 3), In the previous two posts, we examined the reasons that creativity is so highly valued in missions as well as one reason to be concerned about this trend. Let me give another. 2. This tendency betrays a lack of confidence in the gospel The reason that creative thinking is an ongoing need in other endeavors […]

Creativity: the most overvalued trait in missions (Part 2), In the previous post, we looked at some of the reasons that modern missions is majoring in innovation and creativity. Next I want to share a couple concerns about this trend. 1. This tendency betrays a lack of clarity about the mission itself Think for a moment about why creativity is so important in some […]

Creativity: the most overvalued trait in missions (Part 1), When I meet people for the first time and they ask me what I do, I have found that it is not very helpful to answer, ‘I’m a missionary.’ The reason is that in modern parlance, the word missionary has come to have a wider and wider range of meaning. There are all sorts of […]